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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 16, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 39.

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—Silver mines have been discovered in Murray County, Georgia.

—The fur-seal catch of British Columbia for the season, amounts to 60,000.

—A Bombay merchant has lately given 15,000 rupees toward the founding of a girls' school.

—Colonel Stewart and his party of fifty men, en route to Dongola, were murdered by treacherous Arabs.

—There are 140 orphans in a temporary asylum in Naples, Italy. They lost all their relatives by the cholera.

—It is estimated by the Railway Age that 2,533 miles of track have been laid in the United States since Jan. 1.

—Mr. Joseph Livesey, who recently died, was the leader of the band of seven who fifty-two years ago drew up the first temperance pledge for England.

—The Philadelphia Clinical Record says that three women and one man have visited Dr. Pancoast for the purpose of having their great toes cut off, in order to make their feet smaller.

—The largest photographs in the world have just been shipped from Washington to the New Orleans Exhibition. They are five feet wide and seven feet long.

—A London dispatch states that the steamship Miramar, from Yokohama for Hongkong, foundered at sea. All on board were lost with the exception of two Chinese.

—The University at Kieff, Russia, has been closed by the authorities. One hundred and sixty-eight students have been arrested for alleged complicity with nihilists.

—A strong decoction of the leaves and stems of tomato plants is said to be deadly to caterpillars, lice, and other enemies of vegetation, without being injurious to the plants.

—Intelligence has been received of a cyclone at Catania, on the island of Sicily. Trees were uprooted and houses destroyed. Twenty persons were killed and fifty injured.

—A married couple in Allegheny City, Penn., have separated on account of differences growing out of the Presidential nominations. The husband was for Blaine and the wife for Cleveland.

—A storm on Lake Michigan, on the 8th inst., blew away a small shanty which was built on piles about a mile out from Chicago; ten laborers, who were employed in the inlet to the lake tunnel, were drowned.

—A bonded warehouse in Uniontown, Ky., in which were 2,000 barrels of whisky, was burned on the 11th. The value of the whisky is placed at $150,000. The loss of the building, which was worth $25,000, is to be regretted.

—England has ordered the construction of an iron-clad war-ship of 10,000 tons burden, which is to have engines of nearly 1,000 horse-power. She will carry the largest guns. The cost of the vessel will be about $3,000,000.

—Bismarck has prepared a project to be laid before the Reichstag the coming session for the purchase by the empire of all railways now owned by the different Federal Governments, and centralizing the administration thereof in Berlin.

—The Conference report of the Zion Co-operative Mercantile Association shows revenues of $2,000,000; $1,250,000 worth of merchandise on hand; notes and accounts on hand, $500,000, and nearly $250,000 in real estate in Salt Lake and other places.

—An attempt was made to ditch and rob the Santa Fe passenger train near Emporia, Kan., Sunday night, Oct. 5. The rails were unspiked but not removed, and the train ran over safely, but a freight train which followed was ditched, and the fireman and engineer killed. A volley was fired into the passenger train by the robbers when they saw their scheme had failed.